My overall impression is that if a person has the patience to work through any technical problems which may crop up along the way, overdrive is quite cool.  Unfortunately I ran into difficulties installing overdrive both on my home computer and on a computer at work.  At home I have now uninstalled it, and sometime when I get the chance I will try to re-install it.  At work I needed to uninstall it, delete the DRM folder, rename the ‘capicom’ file, and then re-install the overdrive.  Once that was done I was able to run the windows security upgrade and then finally download items. 

It would be nice if overdrive allowed the capability for patrons to delete items off their account.  For patrons that really take to this service I can see that they may want to download more than 10 items.  Also, for persons who may be new to overdrive, having to first click on ‘add to cart’ doesn’t seem to be an obvious or apparent step to take, before being able to check out – although for people who buy things off the internet this would likely be much more obvious.

I downloaded a movie – it took about 15 minutes – wow, I was suprised it took that long…..can’t imagine how long it would take on a dial-up computer.  Once the movie was finally up and going I thought the quality (audio and visual) was pretty good.  The one overdrive feature that I would really love to see though, is the ability to minimize the movie, in case you need to work on something else momentarily on your screen, and then you could still listen to the movie as it is playing.

Well, that’s that.  This is a service that I will continue exploring – I need to try downloading a book now, and also some music……those will be my next two items to try-out.